A lot like the "Five-Year Plans" of the USSR......grandiose, on paper, and seldom fully realized.
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A lot like the "Five-Year Plans" of the USSR......grandiose, on paper, and seldom fully realized.
Nobody took that bait.....
Love it, as always!!!!!
L-1 #213 is now Arkansas & Missouri #69.....don't know if she has arrived at A&M's trackage yet, but hopefully she'll be made fully operational and keep her high-short hood.
I think the Bay Ridge Branch was two and four tracks in places between Fresh Pond Junction and 65 Street Yard in Bay Ridge, especially during the electrified operation days up until Penn Central took over in 1968.
I think there was a customer at Hicksville Yard that took boxcars of bricks, and bulkhead flatcars of some sort of other building material, back when NYA had the use of the yard for off-line customers.
Cold Spring Harbor, I believe....
Effing-paywall......
I think the Brookhaven Terminal has a pair of leased GP38-2's or GP40-2's on-site for switching.
Always look forward to these updates!!!
Awesome, as always.
Potash.......interesting! Love to see pics of the covered hoppers carrying that to the customer, if this is legit. On the MDDE's Facebook page, PotashCorp's salmon-red covered hoppers are frequently shown being spotted. Cars, and I believe offered in HO scale by Atlas....
I seem to recall a C-94 and a C-96, with the -96 I believe I saw at the Garden City Yard, Hicksville Yard, and the Farmingdale Wye, back in the '80s, although I could be wrong....
Remember seeing a picture, years ago, in either Trains or Railfan & Railroad, of long abandoned ROCK trackage in Arkansas with the remains of a trackside signal, stripped of anything valuable to scrap vandals. I was struck by how at one time, the line was once part of a larger system, and, since...
Apparently the 213 has been sold to the Arkansas & Missouri, and renumbered as their #69. Don't know if it has been interchanged yet.